Bücher der Reihe American Sociological Association Rose Monographs

Control of illegal drug use and abuse requires an elaborate network of organizations and professions: medical, legal, political, educational, and welfare. This book, first published in 1984, explores the way in which these diverse sectors coordinate the control of deviance in a complex society.

This study of the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements among North American Indians offers an innovative theory about why these movements arose when they did. Professor Thornton argues that the Ghost Dances were deliberate efforts to accomplish a demographic revitalization of American Indians following their virtual collapse.

Using a wealth of data collected in Israel, this study depicts a complete system in which art is created and evaluated - the scale of Israeli society allowing for a comprehensive and detailed description of all the agents involved in the production and consumption of modern art.

In this book, John Miller shows that negotiating for workplace rewards is actually far more complicated than rationalistic theories of the workplace and the claims typically made by organizations suggest, and he demonstrates that access to networks of organizational communication is in fact fundamentally influenced by race and gender.